#at

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#done #fact #illegitimate #legitimate #makes

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator. ↗

— James Shirley

#commentator #did #honor #overpaid

There is no armor against fate. ↗

— James Shirley

#armor #fate

You become what you think about all day long. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#obsession #inspirational

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#any #army #back #been #before

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#artists #balance of power #call #challenge #describe

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#edge #end #i #i see #look

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#appreciation #audience #back #comprehend #could

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. ↗

— Martin Short

#father #had #i #irish #irish catholic